United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act)
Latest action · Feb 2, 2007 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJan 24, 2007
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
United States National Health Insurance Act (or the Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act) - Establishes the United States National Health Insurance (USNHI) Program (the Program) to provide all individuals residing in the United States and in U.S. territories with free health care that includes all medically necessary care, such as primary care and prevention, prescription drugs, emergency care, and mental health services.
Prohibits an institution from participating in the Program unless it is a public or nonprofit institution. Allows nonprofit health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that actually deliver care in their own facilities to participate in the Program.
Gives patients the freedom to choose from participating physicians and institutions.
Prohibits a private health insurer from selling health insurance coverage that duplicates the benefits provided under this Act. Allows such insurers to sell benefits that are not medically necessary, such as cosmetic surgery benefits.
Sets forth methods to pay hospitals and health professionals for services. Prohibits financial incentives between HMOs and physicians based on utilization.
Establishes the USNHI Trust Fund to finance the Program with amounts deposited: (1) from existing sources of Government revenues for health care; (2) by increasing personal income taxes on the top 5% income earners; (3) by instituting a progressive excise tax on payroll and self-employment income; and (4) by instituting a small tax on stock and bond transactions.
Requires the Program to give first priority in retraining and job placement and unemployment benefits to individuals whose jobs are eliminated due to reduced administration.
Establishes a National Board of Universal Quality and Access to provide advice on quality, access, and affordability.
Provides for the eventual integration of the Indian Health Service into the Program.
Cosponsors 93
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jan 24, 2007 to Sep 29, 2008, with 42 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-TX | Al Green | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-MD | Albert Russell Wynn | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-NY | Anthony D. Weiner | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-CA | Barbara Lee | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-CA | Bob Filner | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-MI | Carolyn C. Kilpatrick | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-PA | Chaka Fattah | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-NY | Charles B. Rangel | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-IL | Danny K. Davis | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-IA | David Loebsack | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-OH | Dennis J. Kucinich | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-CA | Diane E. Watson | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-NJ | Donald M. Payne | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-VI | Donna M. Christensen | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
| D-AZ | Ed Pastor | Original | Jan 24, 2007 |
Actions 4
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Feb 2, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 30, 2007Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- Jan 24, 2007Introduced in House
- Jan 24, 2007Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Health.
- Access to health care
- Accreditation (Medical care)
- Advice and consent of the Senate
- Ambulatory care
- Appropriations
- Armed Forces and National Security
- Bonds
- Building construction
- Capital budgets
- Capital investments
- Capitation (Medical care)
- Chiropractic and chiropractors
- Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
- Clinics
- Coinsurance
- Commerce
- Community health services
- Compensation (Law)
- Comprehensive health care
- Congress
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Dental care
- Dentists
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Dislocated workers
- Drug abuse
- Drug abuse treatment
- Drugs
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Electronic data interchange
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medicine
- Excise tax
- Executive reorganization
- Eye care
- Families
- Federal aid to child health services
- Federal aid to education
- Federal-state relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Generic drugs
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government trust funds
- Group medical practice
- Health
- Health counseling
- Health education
- Health facilities
- Health insurance
- Health insurance portability
- Health maintenance organizations
- Health planning
- Hearing
- Hearing aids
- Higher education
- Home care services
- Hospital care
- Hospital rates
- Hospitals
- Identification devices
- Income tax
- Indian medical care
- Insurance premiums
- Investments
- Investors
- Job hunting
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Licenses
- Long-term care
- Long-term care insurance
- Managed care
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical education
- Medical fees
- Medical personnel
- Medical records
- Medical residents
- Medical supplies
- Medically uninsured
- Medicare
- Mental health services
- Mental illness
- Midwives
- Minorities
- Minority health
- National health insurance
- Native Americans
- Nonprofit organizations
- Nurse practitioners
- Nursing homes
- Occupational retraining
- Occupational therapy
- Optometry
- Osteopathy and osteopaths
- Patients' rights
- Payroll deductions
- Physicians
- Physicians' assistants
- Poor children
- Prescription pricing
- Presidential appointments
- Preventive medicine
- Prosthesis
- Psychologists
- Public health
- Quality of care
- Right of privacy
- Salaries
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Social Welfare
- State laws
- Tax rates
- Taxation
- Unemployment insurance
- Veterans' medical care
- Withholding tax
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jan 24, 2007Introduced in House
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